Really short chapter.
Danny's parents stared at the two, dumbfounded. Jazz soon joined. After all, Danny hadn't told her he had a clone. She was the first to speak. "Um, hello Danielle." She looked over at Danny. "I didn't know you had a clone."
"Neither did we." said Maddie. "But then again, you obviously know Danny better than we do." Maddie said. She was still trying to grasp the concept of humans being able to have ghost powers. Danielle stood up and walked over to them, smiling.
"I really need your help. Should I call you anything in particular? I can see how Mom and Dad would be awkward." She blew a bubble with her gum.
"If you're a Fenton, go ahead and call me Dad!" Jack bellowed loudly. "Do you like ghosts?" Dani laughed a little as she walked over to lay on the couch, eyes staring at the ceiling.
"I'm Danny's clone, I like everything he does. And a few other things, seeing as I'm not a boy." She blew another bubble, this one bigger.
"Are you...like him?" Maddie asked. Danny nodded to her, and she nodded back slowly. She then turned back to Danielle. "And if Jack's going to let you call him Dad, you can call me Mom." Danielle turned her head and smiled.
"It's about time I got a real family. Now, once I get a stable form, I won't have to worry about losing everything." Jack and Maddie looked at each other.
"Stable form? What do you mean?" Maddie asked. Danny decided to explain it to them.
"Danielle was artificially created by an evil ghost to be like, well, me. He created a lot of others like her, but they were all destroyed. If they get hurt, they fall apart into ecto-goo. Danielle was the only one with a mind, and actually saved me from giving away the vital information that would've allowed Plasmius to make an evil copy of me. So, I really owe her something huge, and she wants to be able to go through a day without worrying about falling apart."
"Well, what do you think we can do for her?" Jack asked. He could've worded it more politely, but I imagine he didn't mean to be rude.
"We need a machine that can analyze my energy mid-transformation. Otherwise, every time she uses her powers, she has a chance of turning into muck."
"So, you need ghost technology? Leave it to me, Jack Fenton!" Jack quickly ran down to the lab, eager to get started. Maddie looked between the two Dannys, and decided she needed more information to help. So she sat down on the couch next to Danielle (though not right next to her, because it was all kinda creepy still) And Danny sat on the other side. Maddie asked them all sorts of questions on their abilities, enemies, and such. Danny didn't mention Vlad to her, because he knew he'd be exposed to the world if he did. Danielle kept going on about Plasmius, however, and Maddie was listening intently, making sure she knew everything.
"Wow, he sounds like one seriously crazed up fruitloop!" Maddie laughed. Jazz and Sam, who were sitting on the other side of the room, nodded in agreement.
"That's exactly what Danny said when they first met." Jazz shared. "And I had the same idea. But even though he's a fruitloop, he's one of the strongest ghosts out there." After Maddie learned as much as she could, she went to join her husband in the lab.
"Who's up for Doomed?" Danny asked.
A few hours later, it was dinner time. Jack and Maddie kept exchanging worried glances as they ate. Danny and Dani got into a food fight, and Jazz got covered in potatoes. She stomped off to the shower to get gravy out of hair, and that was when Jack and Maddie decided to share their findings.
"Well, kids, we've discovered a way that might work, but it's going to take a while. It might take anywhere from another day to a week. In the meantime, Dani, we've decided to enroll you at Casper Middle school. Did you have any previous education?"
"I know about as much as Danny did a month ago. I haven't had any formal schooling though, Plasmius wouldn't let me out of his sight, for fear I might run away or disobey him or something.
"Then maybe we should request you be in 8th grade. That way, you'll seem to have the intelligence of a Fenton, yet not be too far ahead of the other kids your age." The Fentons were a smart family, but nobody had ever skipped a grade. Even Jazz hadn't had the opportunity, though she was at the top of her class and getting straight A's.
"Ok, as long as I can..."
"Dani, no pranks. Last time, she came up through the table during lunch. Everyone could've seen her!" Dani rolled her eyes. Do I really get that boring in two years? I hope not.
"But it was fun! And I would've..."
"Yeah, that would've been good, but somehow, I would've gotten the blame." The two ghost kids glared at each other for a few minutes, leaving Jack and Maddie positive they'd missed something.
After dinner, Danny and Dani went upstairs, arguing about some ghost. Jack and Maddie stared at each other, wonderstruck.
"So, what about that ghost girl?"
"Jack, whether I can comprehend it or not, that 'ghost girl' is our daughter, in a sense. And we have to help her."
"Are
we even sure this idea will work?"
"It has to, Jack. For the
children."
That's the taste you get for now. Like I said, review and tell me what you think!
